By Nora Chopra
SURESH PRABHU EARNS PRIME MINISTER’S DISPLEASURE
Suresh Prabhu who was inducted in the Narendra Modi cabinet with great fanfare has landed himself into serious trouble. Prime Minister is extremely upset with Suresh Prabhu over the series of rail accidents that have taken place of late. PM recently summoned him and has told him in clear terms that if these accidents continue, he is sure to lose the railway ministry. He was so scared after the last accident that he did not even face the media. At the meeting held on accidents, he chaired the meeting but was conspicuous by his absence at the press briefing done on accidents leaving the media fretting with anger. Prabhu who was to be the Sherpa for the PM at G 20 to be held in Antalaya in Turkey on November 15 and 16, has been dropped by PM. Adding to his woes is the recent goof up on the railway time table. The time table which was to be released on October 1, is perhaps not ready. There was no single printed copy of the time table available till twelve midnight on September 30, leaving all the passengers totally confused and bewildered. The passengers had no idea when their trains would arrive or depart.
RAHUL GANDHI FORCED TO CAMPAIGN IN BIHAR ELECTIONS
As pressure mounted on the Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, he has been forced to reverse his decision of not campaigning in Bihar. In view of the failure of the Champaran rally, Rahul had decided to withdraw himself from the campaign which he was to lead in Bihar. Rahul had been forced to cancel his Bihar tour after his experience in Champaran rally last week. At the Champaran rally there was hardly any crowd and only one thousand were listeners mobilised by the Bihar PCC chief Ashok Choudhury and general secretary CP Joshi. Rahul is extremely upset with both Choudhury and Joshi. Sources claim that both got a firing there and then by Rahul. Meanwhile the absence of Nitish Kumar and Lalu Yadav from the Congress rally has only further irked the Congress VP. All this had compelled Rahul to decide that he would no more campaign for the party in Bihar. But because of the pressure mounting from within the rank and file of the Bihar Congress, he has no option but to campaign
JOURNALIST SWAPAN DASGUPTA MAY BE REWARDED BY BJP
Swapan Dasgupta, once a journalist but now the BJP ideologue, is all set to head the country’s biggest news agency the Press Trust of India replacing the top honcho and a Congress favourite M K Raazdan. It has been a sad tale of sychophancy for both Dasgupta and Razdan. Dasgupta quit his job to become the BJP ideologue and adviser just in quest of getting a Rajya Sabha. seat. The BJP which is used to promoting its saffron media persons had gifted Chandan Mitra, a newspaper baron with a Rajya Sabha seat for converting it into another BJP mouthpiece. The BJP even made another journalist with RSS background a five year stint in Rajya Sabha.. This gave rise to hopes of most pro BJP journalists and hectic lobbying began. Many journalists have quit their jobs for getting a share in the BJP booty. . Poor Raazdan courted proximity to the Congress for last ten years lobbying for Rajya Sabha but the Congress is yet to give nomination to any working journalist. It has only obliged media barons or media
PRIME MINISTER SHEDDING CROCODILE TEARS FOR HIS MOTHER
The poor mother of Narendra Modi is really an unlucky mother. While she spends her days in penury in her home town, her prime minister son cries for her in a foreign country. In an interaction in San Jose he told the audience that his mother worked as a house maid to bring him up. . Till now the entire world knew that his father sold chai to bring him up. Now he tried to gain sympathy by shedding tears for his mother whom he has abandoned. His mother has not stepped into the luxurious and sprawling residence of her prime minister son. But he has only to offer tears for her. By bursting into tears, he is unlikely to get sympathy. Instead political circles are only amused and some opposition leaders were heard laughing. A senior MP of his own party was heard saying that PM shed crocodile tears.
MADHUSUDAN MISTRY WOOING SURJEWALA AND SCINDIA
The Congress general secretary in charge of Uttar Pradesh Madhusudan Mistry who is known to be the blue eyed boy of Rahul Gandhi is these days busy lobbying hard with Randeep Singh Surjewala or Jyotiraditya Scindia. After getting the indication that he may be dropped in the next reshuffle, Mistry has taken to the well known route of sychophancy. These days Madhusudan can be found doing some buttering and flattering Surjewala and Scindia to maintain his position. Mistry has already adjusted Surjewala and Scindia’s supporters in the 30 member observer committee he has been asked to constitute for the 30 districts of UP. Out of the 3o members, nearly half of them are from Haryana mostly Surjewala supporters. Even ailing workers have been made a member who can not even move out of their beds. Chakravorty Sharma who just had a heart operation and advised bed rest for 2 months is a member.
ASHOK CHAVAN TURNS REBEL CONGRESSMAN
The Maharashtra PCC chief Ashok Chavan who is on his way out, is now in a rebellious mood. He refused to come to the kisan rally when he was asked to contribute money towards the rally, he refused to give money and he even refused to participate in the rally. Ashok Chavan was not the only one who absented himself from the rally but the entire Maharashtra PCC was conspicuous by its absence. Except for the erstwhile chief minister Prithviraj Chavan and the CLP leader Vikhe Patil, all the others boycotted the rally. Prithviraj wants to become the CLP leader and Vikhe Patil is waiting to grab the PCC chief ‘s post. (IPA)